Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-29971 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-281
critical

Summary

If a user had granted a permission to a webpage and saved that grant, any webpage running on the same host - irrespective of scheme or port - would be granted that permission. *This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 90.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)